02750cam a2200361 i 4500 962728410 TxAuBib 20231017120000.0 230512s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023022993 9780802160508 HRD 28.00 0802160506 HRD 28.00 TxAuBib rda Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971-, author Man of two faces. A man of two faces [BOOK] : a memoir, a history, a memorial / Viet Thanh Nguyen. First edition. New York : Grove Press, [2023] 380 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references. At the age of four, Nguyen and his family are forced to flee his hometown of Ban Mê Thuột and come to the USA as refugees. After being removed from his brother and parents and homed with a family on his own, Nguyen is later allowed to resettle into his own family in suburban San José. But there is violence hidden behind the sunny façade of what he calls AMERICATM. One Christmas Eve, when Nguyen is nine, while watching cartoons at home, he learns that his parents have been shot while working at their grocery store, the SàiGòn Mới, a place where he sometimes helps price tins of fruit with a sticker gun. Years later, as a teenager, the blood-stirring drama of the films of the Vietnam War such as Apocalypse Now throw Nguyen into an existential crisis: how can he be both American and Vietnamese, both the killer and the person being killed? When he learns about an adopted sister who has stayed back in Vietnam, and ultimately visits her, he grows to understand just how much his parents have left behind. And as his parents age, he worries increasingly about their comfort and care, and realizes that some of their older wounds are reopening. A Man of Two Faces explores the necessity of both forgetting and of memory, the promises America so readily makes and breaks, and the exceptional life story of one of the most original and important writers working today. -Provided by publisher. 20231017. Nguyen, Viet Thanh 1971- Nguyen, Viet Thanh 1971- Family. Vietnamese Americans California San Jose Biography. Immigrants California San Jose Biography. Refugees Vietnam Buôn Ma Thuột Biography. Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Refugees. Buôn Ma Thuột (Vietnam) Biography. San Jose (Calif) Biography.